I'll Go Your Way Too

You'll probably want to buy the CD. Now, iTunes will download it for you, but before you do that, let me tell you about an article I read a couple of years ago. It was in the Music section of our local newspaper, a blinded study of sorts. A DJ, a sound engineer, and an orchestra conductor were given very expensive earphones, and asked to listen to a number of recordings in various formats. They were CD, Lossless, 256 kbps and 128 kbps. The DJ couldn't separate them, obviously due to occupational hearing loss or concurrent substance abuse or both. The engineer and the conductor delivered the same results - CD the best, 128 the worst, and they could not separate Lossless from 256. So if you want to hear Leonard Cohen Live In London in concert-quality then get the CD. And the DVD.
Not just for Mr. Cohen. For Sharon Robinson and the Webb sisters, blues nightingales. For the best collection of musicians in a long time. And Leonard Cohen, well, I don't pretend even to try and add what is written about the man. You know it all. Especially that there appear to be three phases to his performing life - the literature, the early voice - thin, almost tuneless but enthralling - and the later voice, mellifluous and matched perfectly to his colleagues on stage.
The poetry varies, all interesting, some naughty, to use an old-fashioned word, and occasionally one verse. His Book of Longing was published in 2006, and has all these forms of poetry. The shortest one is the best. It delivers a feint then the punch, and it's about love, all in two lines. It goes "You go your way I'll go your way too" It's just that bit better than the Roman "Ubi tu Gaius..." wedding vow because it suggests togetherness, not just amalgamation. And that's love.